[Framers] Conditional Paragraph Tags?

[John Newman]

In the graphs they are offset by a day I've noticed. Export the report, 
though, and the dates are correct.

-- JN


On 6/7/2012 4:33 AM, Shmuel Wolfson wrote:
> I would not have added the text to the element as an Autonumber Format 
> if I could have avoided it. I would have added the text as a variable 
> and apply a condition to the variable after inserting it in the doc.
>
> If that's not a good solution for you, then I would add both sets of 
> styles to the same doc, only for the styles that you had to change. 
> This would require changing the names. So you would have "Figure 
> Caption" and "Figure Caption Special."  Then conditional each 
> paragraph to appear in one manual the standard manual or the custom 
> manual.
>
> Regards,
> Shmuel Wolfson
> Technical Writer
> 052-763-7133
>
>
> On 07-Jun-12 5:48 AM, Combs, Richard wrote:
>> John Newman wrote:
>>
>>> Since the appended version is a new requirement, I created one manually
>>> to meet an immediate deadline by making a copy of the whole FM book and
>>> adding the parenthetical element using Autonumber Formatting to the
>>> appropriate paragraph tags.
>>>
>>> I don't want to maintain two versions of the exact same content (it's
>>> over 150 pages), so how can I do what amounts to conditional paragraph
>>> tags? It'd be great to somehow tell FM, "Use NORMAL-LAYOUT because this
>>> is a normal document." And then after producing a PDF tell FM, "Use
>>> FUNKY-LAYOUT because this is a funky document."  The solution is
>>> probably staring me in the face, but my brain can't seem to find the
>>> way.
>> Make a special-purpose template file for each. In an FM file that has 
>> your existing book's paragraph formats, delete everything except the 
>> paragraph formats that need to be switched between the normal and 
>> funky definitions -- conditions, xrefs, table formats, char formats, 
>> etc. (This isn't strictly necessary, but it simplifies the file, 
>> avoids confusion, and prevents you from accidentally importing from 
>> it things you don't want to import.) Save it as NORMAL-LAYOUT.fm.
>>
>> Now make a copy of NORMAL-LAYOUT.fm and save it as FUNKY-LAYOUT.fm. 
>> In it, redefine the paragraph formats to have the autonumbers you 
>> need in the funky version.
>>
>> To output a funky version of the book:
>>
>> 1) Open FUNKY-LAYOUT.fm.
>> 2) Open the book and select all the files in it (or all the chapter 
>> files, if your frontmatter uses a different paragraph catalog).
>> 3) Select File>  Import>  Formats.
>> 4) In the Import Formats dialog, set Import from Document to 
>> FUNKY-LAYOUT.fm, select only Paragraph Formats, and click Import.
>> 5) Update/generate the book and create your funky PDF.
>>
>> To output a normal version of the book, repeat the above steps, but 
>> at steps 1 and 4, use NORMAL-LAYOUT.fm.
>>
>> Once you've created NORMAL-LAYOUT.fm and FUNKY-LAYOUT.fm, switching 
>> the book from one to the other takes less time than it took to 
>> describe the process.
>>
>> HTH!
>>
>> Richard G. Combs
>> Senior Technical Writer
>> Polycom, Inc.
>> richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
>> 303-223-5111
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>>
>>
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